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...tenancy. Near to the almost perfectly preserved little chapel which Rector Gough discovered last week are the remnants of a Norman Church, built at a much later date and destroyed during the last century. In its foundations there is a tomb upon which travelers may read this somewhat anxious epitaph: "John of Candover lies here. May the good and gracious God have mercy...
...appropriate epitaph for Mr. Hoover at the conclusion of his race in the State of Illinois...
Such was the epitaph awaiting Lee O'Neil Browne when, last week, stooping to avoid a low branch, he made a misstep on the narrow stone path at the edge of his bluff and plunged 50 feet into the Fox River, whose muddy waters whirled along half a mile (to their junction with the Illinois River) before"yielding the body...
...verse† he states more succinctly, more bitterly the angry, scornful, rebellion with which he regarded the dismal riddle of existence. The terse wrinkled lines of his poetry are like those of his small face in their expression of quiet pessimism, of a thoughtful, stoic sorrow. His "Epitaph on a Pessimist'' is a flippant quatrain: I'm Smith of Stoke, aged sixty-odd, I've lived without a dame From youth-time on; and would to God My dad had done the same...
...Gallery, sold miniature hatchets. When she rushed into the Senate Chamber shouting: "Treason, anarchy, conspiracy-Discuss these!" she was arrested, fined $25. In 1911 she entered a sanitarium at Leavenworth where she died the following June of paresis. Dying, she asked that on her tombstone should be inscribed the epitaph: "She hath done what she could...